Voice by Pete Simonelli Guitar by David Grubbs Organ by David Maranha Percussion by Andrea Belfi

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (Triptych) Three takes on America - three journeys and three documents. Written and recorded. Year 1939, John A. Lomax and Ruby T. Lomax in their Plymouth - going South. 6502 miles, tons of audio recordings and a diary where report on the voices of South and voices of South become barely distinguishable. Year 1949, Harry Partch - leaving for Gualala. Old smithy on a cliff, an isolated recording studio, breeding of a troop of small creatures called "Eleven Intrusions" - perhaps one of the frst cosmopolitan reinventions of American native music. Finally, just recently, an anonymous hunt for vanishing - say north of Highway 15 and West of Baker. Online manual. All three documents were approached by musicians who met in Warsaw for Playback Play 2012 - a week long series of rehearsals and performances. And then put together to form - what exactly? A historiosophical narrative in music arrangements? A distant mirage of something we have already heard somewhere? Three images of America facing each other?